Monthly Archives: April 2014

R C F Besch served in World War I as a Second Lieutenant of the 28th Battalion, London Regiment. This photo was posted by the Imperial War Museums on Flickr in the “Commons” section in the hopes that people can help identify more information about the soldiers. Some of the photos found there are sourced…

I’ve been wanting to colorize this photo of Rita Hayworth for some time, but hadn’t gotten around to it until this morning. One of my favorite, and perhaps only, book to movie translations that really I really enjoyed was “Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption” by Stephen King. Rita Hayworth was dropped from the movie…

This photo is one of the many photos that Stanley Kubrick photographed in New York . I have always been a fan of Stanley Kubrick‘s work but I primarily chose this photo for the reflection and the depth of the objects in the reflection. I had to break this colorization into three separate parts…

Veronica Lake was an American film actress who was known for her femme fatale roles in film noir during the 1940s. She was also well known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle, in which she would cover one eye with her hair. She was also known to hit the bottle unfortunately and this led to a large decline in her acting career which pretty much…

Whew!! This photo of Audrey Hepburn Shopping with her pet deer was extremely tedious to colorize, but it was also very rewarding to finish. I apologize for the lack of updates the past few days, but this photo really consumed a great deal of my time. The products on the shelves were the most time…

Julie Newmar is an American actress, dancer and singer who is best known for playing one of the incarnations of Catwoman in the 60’s era Batman television show alongside Adam West. There are many photos and portraits of Julie Newmar around but for some reason this one just stuck to me. The camera shot seems…

This old black and white photo from the Library Of Congress was taken from a glass negative and dates back to around 1915 . These two gentleman were the nominees of the republican party in 1916. On the left is Charles Evans Hughes who was a presidential nominee & The guy on the right is…

I colorized this black and white photo for a client back in February and as I was going through the photo, I couldn’t help but noticed the woman in the middle looked alot like Judy Garland. Turns out it is actually Judy Garland in the photo! I immediately asked the client who requested this photo…